We're pleased to announce the availability of over 500,000 apps as part of our support for Google Play™. You can now take advantage of more music, movies, Android™ apps, and games than ever before with the Google Play store app preloaded on the Kobo Vox.

For current Kobo Vox users, Google Play will be automatically included in the software update the next time they connect to the internet.

Well colour me shocked! Not that I'm against having the Play support, I just thought it would never happen.

On a side note, I still think it was a extremely poor business move to have the marketing talking about Play support before it was available to the customers. After all, false advertising is false advertising, no matter how long it goes on for...

I think we can cut them some slack here seeing as it was only a couple of days until it actually was available...
My update only took 5 minutes, start to finish, and went without any hitches. Nice to have the Play store available even though I had figured out lots of alternatives by now. Makes everything so much simpler!

I had to uninstall Lookout and delete my Lookout account via their website. I downloaded and installed Lookout through Google Play and it's working now. I did end up with a free two week trial of the premium version again. I hadn't wanted to delete my account, but it wouldn't let me have what it perceived as more than one device. I just used the same e-mail and password to create another account.

We're pleased to announce the availability of over 500,000 apps as part of our support for Google Play™. You can now take advantage of more music, movies, Android™ apps, and games than ever before with the Google Play store app preloaded on the Kobo Vox.

For current Kobo Vox users, Google Play will be automatically included in the software update the next time they connect to the internet.

I put the device into airplane mode and used the button to put it into sleep mode. I left the room for a few minutes, came back in. The Vox was on. I was able to open Overdrive, but then the device froze when I tried to open the book I had been reading. Had to do the 10s holding down the power button thing to turn it off. I'm just powering up right now.

I had forgotten the sleep of death issue involved having the wifi turned off and then putting it in standby and finding the device unusable or only able to perform one or two functions before freezing solid after to taking e it out of sleep mode.